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  2. Oral Roberts - Wikipedia

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    Harry McNevin said that in 1988 the ORU Board of Regents "rubber-stamped" the "use of millions in endowment money to buy a Beverly Hills property so that Oral Roberts could have a West Coast office and house." [54] In addition, he said a country club membership was purchased for the Roberts' home. The lavish expenses led to McNevin's ...

  3. Causes of the Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    The Great Depression: An Inquiry into the Causes, Course, and Consequences of the Worldwide Depression of the Nineteen-Thirties, as Seen by Contemporaries and in Light of History (1986) Garraty, John A. Unemployment in History (1978) Garside, William R. Capitalism in Crisis: International Responses to the Great Depression (1993) Haberler ...

  4. Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    The term "The Great Depression" is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with formalizing the phrase, [228] though Hoover is widely credited with popularizing the term, [228] [229] informally referring to the downturn as a depression, with such uses as "Economic ...

  5. Great Depression in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As the Great Depression became worse, the call raised for increasing in federal intervention and spending. But Hoover refused to allow the federal government to force fixed prices, control the value of the business or manipulate the currency, in contrast, he started to control the dollar price.

  6. John Maynard Keynes - Wikipedia

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    During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Keynes spearheaded a revolution in economic thinking, challenging the ideas of neoclassical economics that held that free markets would, in the short to medium term, automatically provide full employment, as long as workers were flexible in their wage demands.

  7. Dust Bowl - Wikipedia

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    Migrants abandoned farms in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico, but were often generally called "Okies", "Arkies", or "Texies". [38] Terms such as "Okies" and "Arkies" came to be standard in the 1930s for those who had lost everything and were struggling the most during the Great Depression. [39]

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    But before that, he had called Greenwell, Grateful Life’s intake supervisor. Hamm had begged to be allowed back into the program. Greenwell had turned him down. “It’s heartbreaking,” Greenwell said. “I really think he’s a great guy. He tried to call me personally many times. Unfortunately, I told him he was no longer in our program.

  9. New Deal - Wikipedia

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    The First New Deal (1933–1934) dealt with the pressing banking crisis through the Emergency Banking Act and the 1933 Banking Act.The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) provided US$500 million (equivalent to $11.8 billion in 2023) for relief operations by states and cities, and the short-lived CWA gave locals money to operate make-work projects from 1933 to 1934. [2]